Amicool External DVD Drive, Amicool USB 3.0 Type-C CD DVD +/-RW Optical Drive USB C Burner Slim CD/DVD ROM Rewriter Writer Reader Portable for PC Laptop Desktop MacBook Mac Windows 7/8.1/10 Linux OS A

Despite it says on the box that it works with Linux OS, it does not! There is an email in the manual and the answer I got when I asked for an installing driver for the latest LTS release of Linux was: "Hi, Sorry for not being able to reply you earlier. Having sent your issue to our technical team, we were told this external drive doesn't support Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS. It work fine with Mac and windows system. Sorry for the inconvenience and sincerely thank you for your understanding and patience. Best regards" This is why I gave this item the minimum score for portability. As for easy to use, I think the cable could be a bit longer, because when I'm home I use a platform to elevate my notebook, so the screen is horizontally aligned to my eyesight. I am going to test the drive with Windows, but that is going to be a pain in the neck to keep switching between OS just because of it.

Je l'ai branché sur mon ''laptop'' car celui-ci n'a pas de lecteur CD/DVD intégré. Globalement, je suis satisfait du résultat. Bon rapport qualité-prix.

I recently got a new Macbook Air with a USB-C port instead of plain USB ports. I also got an adapter to allow me to still use my USB drives and devices. When I tried to burn a CD from iTunes, my computer couldn't write to my burner through the adaptor. Amicool to the rescue! I purchased an Amicool External DVD drive with USB 3.0 and USB-C cables built into the drive. It's great. Since the cable is attached to the drive, I don't have to worry about misplacing the cable. The drive worked great. It was fast and easy to use. Thanks, Amicool! One small thing - the cable attaches under the drive and you have to bend it back to plug it into your computer. If you don't get it just right the drive is sitting on the cable and so the drive doesn't sit solidly on the table. If you push the cable down hard, it will, but it's easy to not do that. I have an external hard drive with the cable built-in, but instead of coming out of the bottom, it comes out of the side. Maybe for the next upgrade. . . But it's an excellent DVD drive and I'm very happy with my order.

This is garbage, The product looks used and old and it is not recognised by MAC or Linux, there is not contact information from the manufacturer website, or driver to download. Keep away for these unknown brands, better to pay more and has the proper support, Amazon is not able to help, they not even has the contact information either.

The one thing that made this DVD player stand out from the others I was looking at was the fact that it had a USB-C adapter already attached to the player. I have a MacBook Air (2020) that only has USB-C ports so this was important to me. I’ve checked and both the USB and USB-C adapters work beautifully. I did not have to install a driver as Mac already has a driver included in their system. I had to search for it because it doesn’t appear in the Mac Launchpad or in the utilities folder like in previous MacBooks. The easiest way to find it is to do a search using “spotlight” (the magnifying glass icon on the top right of your screen). Another plus is that the DVD tray where you insert your DVD actually pops out at the press of the button on the DVD player itself. My last external DVD player did not have this and I had to eject it from within the app or by right clicking on the DVD icon from my computer. This didn’t always work out so well. I haven’t tried writing anything to a DVD yet, but I don’t normally do that anymore anyway. But for my purposes, this DVD player works beautifully. This DVD player does not work when connected directly to a projector. But there is a work around. If you connect your computer to your projector and the DVD player is connected to your computer, you’ll be able to project your movies onto any surface. It’s also important to note that this DVD player does not connect to other devices like tablets or phones. Again, it only works when connected to a computer. Over all, I’m pretty pleased with this DVD player! It’s portable and the wires fold away nicely for storage. It does everything I need it to do.